End of WWII Eyewitness Panel
The first panel for “War’s End: Eyewitness to History,” a symposium commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, was composed of eyewitnesses to events at the end of the w…
301 viewsThe first panel for “War’s End: Eyewitness to History,” a symposium commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, was composed of eyewitnesses to events at the end of the w…
301 viewsA panel talked about the book, The War, published by Knopf. Based on the PBS documentary film of the same name directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, The War offered a ground-level view of W…
310 viewsTom Wiener was interviewed about the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Mr. Wiener is a historian with the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. He described the or…
143 viewsTom Wiener showed some of the Library of Congress archives of the Veterans History Project. He displayed some drawings from the collection of Samuel Boylston, a college student from South Ca…
75 viewsTom Wiener showed some of the Library of Congress archives of the Veterans History Project. He displayed photographs taken by Robert Lee Olen, who served with the Army Mountain Rangers in It…
101 viewsPoliticians were interviewed about their experiences in the military for the Veterans' Oral History Project collection at the Library of Congress. Portions of their interviews were shown. Fi…
199 viewsThe Washington Journal marked the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. May 8th was V-E day. Tom Wiener, Terry Shima, Igor Belousovitch and Martin Weiss talked about the Lib…
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